Californification

English

Etymology

From Californ(ia) +‎ -ification.

Noun

Californification (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of Californication.
    • 1983, Neal R[ippey] Peirce, Jerry Hagstrom, “Oregon: Fearing Growth, Seeking Growth”, in The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 820:
      Oregon in the 1960s and ’70s reveled in its image as a lush paradise, sparsely populated by individualists who made no secret of their desire to protect the state from the “Californification” they feared was creeping northward.
    • 2002, David Buckley, “Sophomore, 1983–85”, in R.E.M. Fiction: An Alternative Biography, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, part I (The Ice Age, 1979–85), page 99:
      [Mitch] Easter too felt the ‘Californification’ of the popular music business was detrimental to creativity.
    • 2007 July, Layla Gibbon, “Columns”, in Maximum Rocknroll, number 290, [Berkeley, Claif.], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 2:
      The Californification of the way I talk started a long time ago, being that my mum is from Southern California, but I have no excuses for the fact that my conversation is essentially Fast Times at Ridgemont High at all times nowadays.
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